Awards & Honors
Zayde Antrim, who will be joining the History
Department and the International Studies Program as an assistant
professor in the fall, has been named the recipient of the 2005
Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies for her dissertation, “Place
and Belonging in Medieval Syria, 6th/12th to 8th/14th Centuries.”
The prize is given annually by Mamluk Studies Review for the best
dissertation on a topic related to the Mamluk Sultanate submitted to
an American or Canadian university during the preceding calendar
year.
Judy Dworin, professor of theater and
dance, received the Connecticut Dance Alliance Award for
Distinguished Achievement. The award was presented during the Dance
Masters Weekend at Wesleyan University. Dworin was also named the
recipient of the Charter Oak Cultural Center Arts and Education
Vision Award. She will be honored during a May 11 presentation
ceremony at the center in Hartford.
The Faculty Research Committee recently
announced the following members of the faculty as recipients of
One-Year Research Expense Grants, effective June 1, 2006, through
August 31, 2007.
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David Branning
Assistant Professor of Physics |
A single-photon source for quantum
cryptography
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Robert Corber
Associate Professor of Women,
Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Cold War queer: Gender and sexual
mobility in Hollywood cinema
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Marco Cupolo
Lecturer in Modern Languages
and Literatures |
The Best of Youth: Culture,
institutions and violence in contemporary Italy
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Eric Galm
Assistant Professor of Music |
Unsung voices: Evanira Mendes Birdman
and the Brazilian National Folklore Commission
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Christoph Geiss
Assistant Professor of Physics |
Investigation of pingo scars in
Wethersfield, CT
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David Henderson
Professor of Chemistry
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Development and application of a method
to monitor waste water in the environment |
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Dan Lloyd
Professor of Philosophy
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Brain imaging of conscious experience
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Martha Risser
Associate Professor of Classics
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Isthmia: Pottery deposits in the
Sanctuary of Poseidon |
The Faculty Research Committee recently
announced the following members of the faculty as recipients of
Three-Year Expense Grants, effective June 1, 2006, through August
31, 2009.
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Daniel Blackburn
Professor of Biology
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Evolution of placentas in African and
South American lizards |
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Theresa Morris
Assistant Professor of Sociology
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Racial disparity in mortgage lending
and transformations in the U.S. banking industry |
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Jane Nadel-Klein
Professor of Anthropology
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Cultivated lives: Gardens, gardeners
and society in the United States and Britain |
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King-fai Tam
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Living at the Islet Lookout (Chau Tau) |
The Dean of Faculty’s Office, in cooperation
with the Faculty Research Committee, recently announced the
following members of the faculty as grant recipients through the
Faculty Development Program.
Raymond Baker
Professor of International Politics
Joe Byrne
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Jean Cadogan
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Stefanie Chambers
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Dario Del Puppo
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Johannes Evelein
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Dan Lloyd
Professor of Philosophy
Vijay Prashad
Associate Professor of International Studies
Richard Prigodich
Professor of Chemistry
Todd Ryan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Gail Woldu
Associate Professor of Music
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